Beyond High School Graduation
High School & Society
What Is Citizenship Education and Why Is it Important?
Citizenship education demonstrates how schools play an important role in creating an informed electorate through interdisciplinary and holistic education. It seeks to cut across all subject areas, integrating many skills and competencies that will benefit students throughout their lives as individuals, community members, citizens, and professionals.
Beyond High School Graduation
Are High Schools Preparing Students for the Future?
High school is the last stop before students enter the real world of college, career, and adult life. It’s where adolescents are supposed to develop both academically and socially, so they’ll graduate prepared for all the future has to offer. But does it?
Beyond High School Graduation
Do High Schools Prepare Students for Careers?
We know that today’s learners and high school graduates need to be well-prepared to enter the workforce. But do they have the skills and knowledge to pursue their passions? What should career-preparedness look like in a rapidly-changing, 21st-century context?
High School Life
Listen to “Academic Pressure,” on This Teenage Life
Academic pressure can bring out the best and worst in students. Some teens get so invigorated by the chance to prove themselves that they fall down the proverbial rabbit hole, and enjoy reading every piece of research they can find before writing a paper or taking a test. But for others, the pressure to succeed can lead to procrastination, headaches, anxiety attacks, and sleepless nights.
High School Redesign
How Instructional Coaching Helps Teachers Reach Their Potential
The Revere Public Schools in Massachusetts spent years working hard to reinvigorate teacher engagement. Teachers were given a voice in selecting their professional development and reimagining educator evaluations. But…
High School Redesign
DC+XQ Announces First Cohort of High Schools to Be “Reimagined and Redesigned”
Today, District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and XQ Institute (XQ) announced that after a seven-month, community-driven design journey, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and Francis L. Cardozo Education…
High School Redesign
"When Will I Ever Use This?" "How About Today?" Opportunities and Challenges of Modeling with Mathematics in Algebra 1
“Economic access and full citizenship depend crucially on math and science literacy.” Those words were written by Bob Moses more than 20 years ago in describing his evolution from a…
High School Redesign
At This Innovative High School, Students Graduate With the Skills (and Network) to Take Them Wherever They Want to Go
Launched with XQ in Oakland, California, in 2018 with 45 ninth graders, Latitude now has about 300 students. Through an academically rigorous, hands-on approach to learning, the charter school…
High School Redesign
Six Characteristics of Highly Effective School Leadership
Rethinking high school means rethinking leadership. Preparing students with the skills they’ll need to succeed after graduating—like collaboration, original thinking, and lifelong learning—takes creativity and commitment to bold change.
High School Life
Listen to Teens Discuss What Mattered Most to Them in High School Classes
Far too often, young people in U.S. high schools are expected to learn the same thing at the same time in their classes. Teachers present a lesson and lead the discussion, and each student then completes the same assignment. But this can lead to disengagement for students.
High School Life
How Youth Climate Activist Jerome Foster II Became the Voice for One Million Young People
XQ schools empower students not only to dream of the future, but gives them the tools to make those dreams a reality. Learn more about how Jerome Foster II became the voice for one million young people.
High School Redesign
Leading the Redesign of the American High School Model: ESSER Funding makes this a perfect opportunity to meet the needs of this moment
It’s an early fall afternoon in 2020, and I am meeting (over Zoom, of course) with the leadership team of Círculos High School, an XQ school in Santa Ana,…
High School Redesign
How LAB Internships Are Setting Up Scholars for Success Inside and Outside the Classroom
Brooklyn LAB piloted its co-curricular internship program this past summer, allowing scholars to join seven organizations for six weeks of hands-on, experiential learning in an animation studio, digital marketing agency, and more.
High School & Society
The NASBE Interview: Russlynn Ali on High School Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the world. Entire systems adapted to a new normal, shifting their infrastructure and processes to a remote world. COVID-19 changed the way we work, how we spend our free time, and—most importantly—how we care for and educate young people.
High School Life
What Happened to Reading for Fun? And What Can We Do About It?
You know you’ve got a problem when you’re afraid to check your screen time. Over the past year and a half, I’ve started dreading my weekly average report every Sunday, as the hours I spent on my phone each day steadily climbed with every month in lockdown.
High School & Society
Finding Resiliency: Students Open up About Gun Violence
Iowa Big Students who were interested in fighting against gun violence decided to use their voice by creating a documentary to humanize the individuals who have been personally touched by gun violence within their community.
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High School Redesign
What Is Student Centered Learning and Why Is It Important?
High School Redesign
Ways to Celebrate Black History Month: Activities for High School
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